Vanessa Feltz has admitted she and her fiance of 12 years, Phats and Small collaborator Ben Ofoedu, sleep in separate bedrooms five nights out of the week.

But never fear, as Ben insists he has "visiting rights" so the two can be intimate with one another more regularly than his allotted two nights a week.

Of course, Vanessa assured the Loose Women panel that she also had "right to refusal" if she wasn't in the mood.

The broadcaster and her husband first started their interview with Christine Lampard, Janet Street Porter, Anna Richardson and Chizzy Akudolu by confessing how he has never seen Vanessa without her make up during their relationship.

She said: "When I was a teenager my sister and I discussed this and we thought smudged eye make up the morning after is better than no makeup - and I've stuck to that rule so I don't get up at dawn but there's definitely enough residue from the night before."

Janet then quizzed them about their love regime of two nights a week together, and wanted to know whether it was a kind of "sex diet."

Ben replied: "No, no, because I have visiting rights.

"I have visiting rights any time."

Vanessa then jumped in to correct him: "Excuse me, I have right of refusal."

Ben quickly added: "Her right to refusal is just not answering the door.

"I think it's kept everything fresh and sexy and mysterious kind of.

"It works, 12 years later."

Vanessa also said it wasn't because she or Ben snore, but was purely for romantic reasons.

She added: "We're not having everything on tap all the time.

"When we got together everyone said we have nothing in common and they're right, especially us, we agreed.

"We haven't got one thing in common, one single thing, we're different in every way, but something's working 12 years later."

The couple also insisted Ben wouldn't be moving on to the next stage of getting a garden shed to escape his fiancee either.

Loose Women airs weekdays at 12.30pm on ITV.